Monatshefte Guidelines for
Articles
Submission of Manuscript
The following
guidelines will help you as you prepare your manuscript for submission to Monatshefte. Please submit the following
documents in three separate files:
1.
The manuscript formatted according to the
guidelines below and without your name in the document.
2. An abstract of your article of no more than 200 words and written in English.
3. Your name, (reliable) postal and electronic addresses, and your institutional affiliation.
Please send these three documents as Microsoft Word RTF, or WordPerfect 12+ files electronically to office@monatshefte.org. Only original articles not submitted simultaneously to other sources will be considered for publication.
Preparation of the
Manuscript
The format of
the manuscript follows in general the MLA style as specified in:
MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly
Publishing. 3rd edition. New York: The Modern Language
Association, 2008
A. The Text
·
Format
the text in 12-point font with one-inch margins and left justification.
·
Reduce
the formatting to a minimum (e.g., no full justification, no running heads,
etc.).
·
Do
not use hyphenation.
·
Paginate
the manuscript (preferably at the top right of the page).
·
Do
not use footnotes; use endnotes instead.
·
Reduce
the number of endnotes to the minimum necessary.
·
For
articles written in German: follow the neue
Rechtschreibung (Duden, 21st and following editions,)
B. Quotations
·
Mark the quoted text by including it in double
quotation marks (articles written in English: “….”; articles
written in German: „…“)
·
Mark quoted text within
the quotation in simple quotation marks (articles written in English:
‘…’; articles written in German: ‚…‘)
·
If you omit passages from the quoted text mark the
omission by a bracketed ellipsis […] (omissions by the
quoted author will be given as an ellipsis … without brackets)
·
Mark all alterations to the quoted text by brackets
[xxx].
·
Provide the information about the source of the
quoted text in shortened form in parenthesis at the end of the citation, e.g.,
(Friedberg 360).
·
If a quotation is longer than three lines, format it
as a “block quote”, i.e., omit the quotation marks, indent the
entire passage, format it in
11-point font, with single-spaced lines.
C. Works Cited List
The Works Cited list provides the full
bibliographical reference for all
texts cited at the end of the article. The following samples cover the
most common entries (for more details see the MLA Style Manual, 3rd edition, chapter 6). Every entry
should be formatted in 12-point font, single-spaced, and with a ‘hanging
indent.’ It is not necessary to mark the entries as “Print”
if the entire list provides printed sources only. Articles written in German follow the German style, i.e., spell the names
of the cities in German; abbreviate “Herausgeber” as: Hg., etc.)
Monographs
Rhine, Stanley. Bone Voyage: A
Journey in Forensic Anthropology. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1998. Print.
Anthologies
Adler, Hans, and Wulf Koepke, eds. A Companion to the Works of Johann Gottfried
Herder. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2009. Print.
Editions
Goethe, Johann
Wolfgang. Werke. Hamburger Ausgabe in 14 Bänden. Hg. Erich Trunz.
München: Beck, 1989. Print.
Article in
a Book
Kasper, August. “The Doctor and
Death.” The Meaning of Death. Ed. Herman Feifel. New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1959. 259-70. Print.
Article in
a Journal
Friedberg, Lilian. “Dare to
Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust.” American Indian Quarterly
23.3 (2000): 353-80. Print.
Websites
Sources from the Internet may be given with the URL or just with the indicator: Web. Both
forms, however, require the information about the date of access. Hyphenate
lengthy URLs after slashes only and do not insert the hyphen sign (-).
a) with URL:
Magrane, Brian, M.G.F. Gillilan and Dana M. King.
“Certification of Death by Family Physicians,” American Family
Physician 56.5 (1997) http://www.aafp.org/afp/971001ap/
magrane.html [date of access].
b) without
URL:
Magrane, Brian, M.G.F. Gillilan and Dana M. King.
“Certification of Death by Family Physicians,” American Family
Physician 56.5 (1997) Web. [date of access].
D. Endnotes
Endnotes
should be used for information that cannot be integrated into the body of the
text and goes beyond the bibliographical reference. Mark endnotes in the text
with a superscript number. Endnotes are placed between the text and the Works
Cited list and are written in 11-point font and single-spaced. The number of endnotes
should be reasonable in order not to ‘overwhelm’ the text proper.